Stay far from battlefield, warns Japanese director in Vietnam War film

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Modern warfare may have changed, but the suffering of victims remains the same, while those waging war will inevitably “commit horrifying acts,” Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto said of his Vietnam War film at Venice. “Mr. Nelson, Did you Kill People?,” which premiered Friday at the Venice Film Festival, tells the true story of Allen Nelson, a black US Marine sent to Vietnam in 1966 and plagued the rest of his life by what he saw — and did — there. Director Tsukamoto, last at Venice in 2018 wi